Publications
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Shim, S.; Gouveia, B.; Ramm, B.; Valdez, V.; Petry, S.; Stone, H.: Motorless transport of microtubules along tubulin, RanGTP, and salt gradients. Nature Communications 15 (1), 9434 (2024)

Ramm, B.; Schumacher, D.; Harms, A.; Heermann, T.; Klos, P.; Müller, F.; Schwille, P.; Søgaard-Andersen, L.: Biomolecular condensate drives polymerization and bundling of the bacterial tubulin FtsZ to regulate cell division. Nature Communications 14 (1), 3825 (2023)

McNamara, H.; Ramm, B.; Toettcher, J.: Synthetic developmental biology: New tools to deconstruct and rebuild developmental systems. Seminars in Cell & Developmental Biology 141, pp. 33 - 42 (2023)

Corrales-Guerrero, L.; Steinchen, W.; Ramm, B.; Mücksch, J.; Rosum, J.; Refes, Y.; Heimerl, T.; Bange, G.; Schwille, P.; Thanbichler, M.: MipZ caps the plus-end of FtsZ polymers to promote their rapid disassembly. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 119 (50), e2208227119 (2022)

Babl, L.; Giacomelli, G.; Ramm, B.; Gelmroth, A.-K.; Bramkamp, M.; Schwille, P.: CTP-controlled liquid-liquid phase separation of ParB. Journal of Molecular Biology 434 (2), 167401 (2022)

Heermann, T.; Steiert, F.; Ramm, B.; Hundt, N.; Schwille, P.: Mass-sensitive particle tracking to elucidate the membrane-associated MinDE reaction cycle. Nature Methods 18 (10), pp. 1239 - 1246 (2021)

Ramm, B.; Goychuk, A.; Khmelinskaia, A.; Blumhardt, P.; Eto, H.; Ganzinger, K.; Frey, E.; Schwille, P.: A diffusiophoretic mechanism for ATP-driven transport without motor proteins. Nature Physics 17 (7), pp. 850 - 858 (2021)

Heermann, T.; Ramm, B.; Glaser, S.; Schwille, P.: Local Self-Enhancement of MinD Membrane Binding in Min Protein Pattern Formation. Journal of Molecular Biology 432 (10), pp. 3191 - 3204 (2020)

Ramm, B.; Heermann, T.; Schwille, P.: The E. coli MinCDE system in the regulation of protein patterns and gradients. Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences 76 (21), pp. 4245 - 4273 (2019)

Glock, P.; Ramm, B.; Heermann, T.; Kretschmer, S.; Schweizer, J.; Mücksch, J.; Alagöz, G.; Schwille, P.: Stationary patterns in a two-protein reaction-diffusion system. ACS Synthetic Biology 8 (1), pp. 148 - 157 (2019)

Ramm, B.; Schwille, P.: In vitro reconstitution of the bacterial cytoskeleton: expected and unexpected new insights. Microbial Biotechnology 12 (1), pp. 74 - 76 (2019)

Litschel, T.; Ramm, B.; Maas, R.; Heymann, M.; Schwille, P.: Tanzende Vesikel: Proteinoszillationen führen zu periodischer Membranverformung. Angewandte Chemie 130 (50), pp. 16471 - 16806 (2018)

Litschel, T.; Ramm, B.; Maas, R.; Heymann, M.; Schwille, P.: Beating vesicles: Encapsulated protein oscillations cause dynamic membrane deformations. Angewandte Chemie International Edition 57 (50), pp. 16286 - 16290 (2018)

Ramm, B.; Glock, P.; Mücksch, J.; Blumhardt, P.; Garcia-Soriano, D.; Heymann, M.; Schwille, P.: The MinDE system is a generic spatial cue for membrane protein distribution in vitro. Nature Communications 9, 3942 (2018)

Ramm, B.; Glock, P.; Schwille, P.: In Vitro Reconstitution of Self-Organizing Protein Patterns on Supported Lipid Bilayers. Journal of Visualized Experiments 2018 (137), e58139 (2018)

Miyagi, A.; Ramm, B.; Schwille, P.; Scheuring, S.: High-Speed Atomic Force Microscopy Reveals the Inner Workings of the MinDE Protein Oscillator. Nano Letters 18 (1), pp. 288 - 296 (2018)

Ramm, B.; Stigler, J.; Hinczewski, M.; Thirumalai, D.; Herrmann, H.; Woehlke, G.; Rief, M.: Sequence-resolved free energy profiles of stress-bearing vimentin intermediate filaments. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 111 (31), pp. 11359 - 11364 (2014)

Ramm, B.; Khmelinskaia, A.; Franquelim, H.; Schwille, P.: Patterning DNA Origami on Membranes Through Protein Self-Organization. In: Visions of DNA Nanotechnology at 40 for the Next 40: A Tribute to Nadrian C. Seeman, pp. 411 - 431 (Eds. Janoska, N.; Seeman, N.). Springer, Singapore (2023)

Ramm, B.: Self-organization of bacterial protein systems. In Mini Symposium “Host-Microbe Interactions”. Mini Symposium “Host-Microbe Interactions”, Tübingen, Germany, July 10, 2025. (2025)

Shim, S.; Gouveia, B.; Ramm, B.; Petry, S.; Stone, H.: Can microtubule diffusiophoresis be present during spindle formation? In Bulletin of the American Physical Society, W36.00002, p. 1934. 2024 APS March Meeting, Minneapolis, MN, USA, March 04, 2024 - March 08, 2024. Published by the American Institute of Physics for the American Physical Society [etc.], New York (2024)